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Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: BanzaiCat on January 28, 2020, 01:56:50 PM
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Just received notification that my P500 order of The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45 (https://www.gmtgames.com/p-590-the-hunted-twilight-of-the-u-boats-1943-45.aspx) is charged and will be shipping soon. I'd forgotten about this and can't wait to catch sh*t at home for it, LOL.
Did anyone else sign up for this one?
Has anyone played the original The Hunters? I heard it was terrific and a copy of the original has always been priced impossibly high. I know GMT did a reprint of The Hunters (or is in the process of doing this), but I thought The Hunted would be much more interesting and challenging.
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Oh, cool, they made / are making a series from that classic duology??
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Oh, cool, they made / are making a series from that classic duology??
Oh yes. The Hunted is on its third printing and this is a new version I think. Silent Victory is a game I played a bit a few years ago and these are based on that system as well.
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I have and have played quite a bit of The Hunters. Fun in the same sense that B-17 Queen of the Skies is fun, the narrative. Few real decision points but great story.
Plays much quicker than B-17 QotS. You can do a whole U-boat carrier in about 2 hours... depending on how lucky/unlucky you are.
I didn't get The Hunted though... one game of this style was enough for me.
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It's been a while since I played Silent Victory. Not even sure if I still have it or if it's one of the games I sold before I moved. It might be in storage at the moment.
Sigh. Like I need more games. I'd forgotten about this P500.
The only other one I have right now is for Mr. President, but that won't come out probably until closer to the end of this year.
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LOL... Yeah I think I'm all caught up on my pre-orders/KS but I really can't remember.... :idiot2:
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HA! Nope I was wrong, I'm waiting on some more Warfighter cards to show up.... :whistle:
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:ROFL:
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I got my paid notice as well.
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I have all three games in my shopping cart.
I fill out small amounts every day or two.
This makes me feel better. I get to feel like I may buy it, and then I get to feel responsible for not buying it. Win win!(?) >:D
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That's what I did with P500s last year. I had to cull a half dozen or so of them from my list. :ROFL:
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BUT I WANTS THEM!
sigh
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"Wanting" and "able to afford" are two separate things, heh. :-\
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At a little more than US 30 a pop (on P500), I could afford all three of them at once, with some budgeting elsewhere.
I just couldn't play them at any time anywhere feasibly.
I can pick up any of them on Vassal for free at any time, for example, and two of them (Hunters and SVic) have some very nice ports to TTS. Am I playing them? ha! So what does that tell me?
That tells me that any money I spent on them would be purely out of gratitude to the publishers, devs, and designers; I would never really play them. I have nowhere to play them anyway.
I would be much happier just playing the current Uboat PC attempt (still in development alpha), and/or mod-patched SH3, 4, and/or 5. The latter of which by the way I have never tried to play, although I'm pretty sure I bought them...
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I just got notice a few days ago that my order for the Hunters is being shipped. Am I to understand correctly that the Hunted has come out and is being shipped as well?
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I just got notice a few days ago that my order for the Hunters is being shipped. Am I to understand correctly that the Hunted has come out and is being shipped as well?
I only have an order in for The Hunted, and have yet to receive a shipping notice.
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I just got a shipping update from UPS re: GMT Games. As far as I know, it can only be The Hunted.
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Me, too. Only game I'm waiting on is The Hunted. It should arrive tomorrow according to UPS.
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My copy arrived and man it's loaded. Can't wait to try it.
Though a lot of the enablers on BGG told me, when I mentioned I hadn't played The Hunters, that I really needed to get that one as it would be a lot easier to play. The Hunted is supposed to be incredibly unforgiving and brutal, which makes sense considering the timeframe.
I went and looked at The Hunters page and was surprised to see it was $45. I thought it would have gone up in price once the P500s for its third printing shipped; I guess I was wrong, or maybe I caught it just in time. Regardless, there's a long-ass U-Boat campaign in the near future for me. :)
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Regardless, there's a long-ass U-Boat campaign to not finish in the near future for me. :)
ftfy
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When I saw mirth commented on this post, I knew what I was in for.
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Just more of my bullshit and nonsense. :bigthumb:
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After I went through The Hunted, I was pretty sure it would be better to have a U-Boat crew start from the beginning, and gain some skills, rather than a newbie one in 1943. That would be a quick road to the bottom of the Atlantic.
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Would make it more likely for you to finish the campaign >:D
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My heart's in the right place!
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Maybe we can hope for an NA type AAR at some point :)
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His heart's in the right place. His mind?
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Maybe we can hope for an NA type AAR at some point :)
That's priority 1 as far as AARs are concerned. Gotta finish what I start regardless of outcome.
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Yes, it would be good to see a conclusion to the NA AAR :-)